MaintainX

Principal AI Platform Engineer

MaintainX
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3 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the Agent, Skill, and Tool architecture for reasoning, planning, collaboration, discoverability, reuse, permission-aware data access, and progressive autonomy
  • Architect and scale the context graph, retrieval systems, and knowledge systems for customer-specific intelligence and cross-asset reasoning
  • Own agent orchestration, the MCP tool registry, reproducible developer environments, and observability capabilities
  • Design offline and online evaluation systems so user feedback improves agent performance
  • Drive technical alignment and platform adoption across product engineering divisions and hold engineering leaders accountable
  • Set company-wide AI platform strategy, make high-leverage architectural decisions, and represent MaintainX engineering internally and externally

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in backend systems, distributed architecture, or platform/infrastructure engineering
  • 3+ years building ML- or LLM-powered systems in production, including experience with evaluation, latency, cost, and reliability
  • Track record of company-wide technical leadership at the Principal level and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams
  • Experience building internal platforms for engineering customers, including adoption, documentation, enablement, and developer ergonomics
  • Strong Python backend expertise and experience designing APIs, services, and data pipelines
  • Ability to write clear design documents, facilitate technical decisions across teams, and represent engineering externally
  • Production experience with agentic systems, multi-agent orchestration, tool use, or skill registries is preferred
  • Experience with MCP, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, RAG pipelines, vector databases, embedding strategies, or knowledge graphs is preferred
  • Experience in B2B SaaS, industrial software, IoT/OT, or other reliability-sensitive, domain-specific environments is preferred

Benefits

  • Equity and variable compensation aligned to role and location
  • Day-1 health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Work from San Francisco, Toronto, or Montreal hubs, or remotely across the United States and Canada

Tech Stack

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About MaintainX

501-1,000 employees

MaintainX (An Autodesk Company) is a technology company pioneering a next-generation approach to maintenance and asset management. We empower maintenance professionals to reduce unplanned equipment downtime and boost production capacity. Leveraging AI to connect asset and work intelligence data, we provide real-time insights that drive proactive maintenance and operational excellence for over 13K customers across physical asset-driven industries. If you’re looking for an AI-enabled CMMS solution that’s easy to use and implement, look no further. The MaintainX platform manages millions of work orders and assets, and is used by more than 500K frontline professionals globally. We help customers reduce unplanned downtime and increase asset availability, while meeting complex compliance needs and keeping workers safe. Ready to ditch the clipboard? Here's what we can help your team digitize: -Maintenance Work Orders -Preventive Maintenance -Safety Procedures -Safety and Environmental Audits -Multi-site Reporting -IoT & ERP Integrations -Auditing/Inspection Workflows -Training Checklists -Parts Order Management & Vendor Connections We’re proud to serve some of the world’s largest brands, including Duracell, AB InBev, Univar, Cintas, McDonalds, Titan America, and many more. To learn more, please visit www.maintainx.com